Fluorescent imaging of GUS activity and RT-PCR analysis of gene expression in the shoot apical meristem

Plant Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 745-754

  Fleming, Andrew J ^a   Manzara, Thianda ^b   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^b   Kuhlemeier, Cris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MERISTEM; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MERISTEM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0030268329     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.10040745.x     Document Type: Article

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